Conversation With Campos

Editor’s note: This is the final installment of our weekly conversations with District 9 Supervisor David Campos addressing issues and events in the Mission.

Mission Local: You introduced a measure that will determine whether or not personal care businesses — beauty parlors, massage businesses, etc — can expand onto third floors, which is currently not permitted in zoning laws. Can you discuss this new zoning recommendation and it’s implication for its target location, the Mission’s Valencia Street?

David Campos: In terms of the Valencia Street measure, that’s a very narrow one. Part of [the measure] was understanding what the rules actually allow for.

In this case, we had a [massage] business that wanted to come into the third floor. At the beginning, the Planning Commission had thought that legally it wasn’t possible for them to do so under a conditional use application. READ MORE HERE